Presidential Candidates Talk About Video Games

Nathaniel Edwards over at The Wii Playbox 360.3 (hey, that name’s too long) wrote up a nice little summary of what various candidates plan to do about mature gaming. Here are the highlights.

Hillary Clinton – Clinton was a big player in the infamous Hot Coffee scandal of 2005. She spearheaded the Family Entertainment Protection Act, an act which charges fines against any store managers that sells mature games to minors. She’s made it clear that she’s not done with the issue.

Mitt Romney – The current frontrunner for the Republican Party is more or less on the same page as Senator Clinton, looking to ban the sale of mature games to minors.

John Edwards – Edwards praised the ESRB, but still favors government involvement in the matter.

Barack Obama – Obama is in favor of the ESRB monitoring video games, but isn’t opposed to the idea of the government keeping them in line when need be. He’s also in favor of federally funding experiments to study the effect of video games on minors.

Bill Richardson – Richardson briefly mentioned educating parents, but then went off about general education.

So there you have it, gamers. There are plenty more candidates, but here we’ve covered the top Democratic nominees and the current Republican frontrunner. Hopefully we’ll hear more about this issue before the November elections. Check out Nathaniel’s writeup here.